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You might as well edit your own early on. Until you know if you enjoy it, or if you’re good at it or not you might as well not waste money if you don’t have to.
If you enjoy it and get even a little traction, maybe spending to increase the quality will be worth it.
It's not hard to edit an audio podcast at all
Video is a lot harder and more time consuming
Depends on how you set it up, honestly.
I can record a podcast episode and release within about 30 minutes if it’s solo.
I record in OBS, and have a mess of audio filters in place to remove most of the post-processing requirements for audio.
I drop it into audacity to clean up the audio the filters miss (but no cuts - full length), loudness normalize to -19lufs, hard limit -1.0db, export it as a .wav, drop it into adobe with the video and then add my intro/outro clips, produce the video and THEN go into the single track recording and cut out silences and ramblings.
Back in the audio only file in audacity I add the intro/outro, cut the ramblings and silences and export as a fixed rate mp3.
Both of these take less than an hour for a 30-40 minute solo podcast.
The recording filters help a LOT.